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Posted by Steve Guidry on 09/27/06 14:22
Sounds like your monitor needs to be set up properly if it's showing 0, 0,
0, as grey.
Steve
"RP" <RobertPerezLaw@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have scenes where I want quadrants on the screen with simultaneous
> video playing in each. I want to have these quadrants bordered with
> black bars separating them, kind of like a "Woodstock" effect. I've
> tried creating a Keyed Track Matte with a photoshop file that has the
> border segments laid out so that the appropriate video segments will
> show through a Black Video superimposed clip. But the feature is
> extremely buggy and only works periodically. It works great in a test
> project with minimal files, but in my actual project with 6 video
> tracks, putting the matte at the top (Video 6) doesn't work reliably.
>
> When I instead try and create an image file that just has black border
> bars that I can lay on top of the images showing through, the blacks
> never come out as true black on the finished DVD, they look grey. The
> only way I've been able to get real black black is using the Black
> Video generation within the program or with Titles.
>
> What's the best way for me to accomplish the effect I'm looking for? Is
> there something I'm missing in Photoshop that would make these graphic
> images true, true black? I've made them grayscale images with RGB
> 0,0,0, and Brightness brought down to -255. And they look great on my
> computer's preview monitor, black as hell. But once they're on the TV
> screen viewed from a DVD, they are grey.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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